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You might not do that. But your Ops guys, for very good reasons, might say: "only *NIX in prod".

At that point, you could develop on Windows or Mac, but at some point you will have to get acquainted with Linux.

For servers Linux is at least as nice if not nicer than Windows. Just don't start tinkering like you did when you were 12 :)

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Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not. It might seem pedantic, but one must suggest distro's: CentOS(Use RHEL docs), Ubuntu(I recommend Ubuntu Studio for Desktop), Debian, Fedora, GNU/Linux/.*. I might even be as progressive to name freebsd, pc-bsd, RaspBSD.

But sorry, I'm just unwinding a bit on HN, after work.

I'm curious, what exactly is it that makes you recommend Ubuntu Studio for the desktop?

Well to be honest I'm in Windows 10 on Ubuntu Studio. My work platform is OS X and a lot of tmuxing.

I actually don't have a primary OS anymore because with c9 I can have a sane env over https.

> Windows, OS X, RHEL all those are operating systems; Linux is not.

I'd consider "Windows" to be a family of related operating systems (but usually referring to the "Windows NT" OS). "Linux" as well, using the name of the kernel to refer to a family of different OSes built on top of it (while excluding others, in its common use).

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